Mental Wellness Retreat For Italy

Health and Fitness Travel has launched The Mental Makeover Retreat in Italy. Health and Fitness Travel, specialists in wellness holidays worldwide, has launched The Mental...

Brexit effect on medical tourism in Ireland

Health tourism from Northern Ireland post-Brexit could pose a threat to Irish health services. The Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) has warned the...

Is tele-surgery a threat to medical tourism?

Ian Youngman reviews the development of telemedicine and tele-surgery and its potential impact on medical tourism flows.Online shopping for clothes and other goods is...

India accredits Medical Tourism Facilitators

Only two Indian medical tourism agents have been certified by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers. The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals...

Fiji’s first private hospital sold to India

Fiji's first private hospital has been sold to an Indian group, and medical tourism is planned. Fiji's first private hospital has been sold to an...

Is the medical tourism market growing?

Keith Pollard from IMTJ exposes some of the myths around market growth in the medical tourism sector, and highlights the growing interest in fertility...

Why medical tourists go to Dubai

Four medical specialities have taken a large number of medical tourists to Dubai in the last two years. Four medical specialities have taken a large...

A simple approach to understanding how insurance can assist medical travellers

Robin Ali, Head of Practice at The Consilient Consultancy, gives his view on the role of the insurance sector in supporting medical travellers. Much has...

What’s the most common mistake that new entrants to the medical tourism market make?

The medical tourism market sees a high degree of churn. Keith Pollard from IMTJ looks at why many new market entrants fail. How long have...

Belarus concentrates on medical tourism from CIS

Having mostly failed to attract people from Scandinavia and Western Europe, and with few if any medical tourists from Poland, Belarus is concentrating on...